The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-12-21
powDERlY ON JAY COULD.
A Very Severe Attack by the Leader OF
Labor upon the Railroad Masrste.
(Eror the Philadelphia T!mes.)

A Very Severe Attack by the Leader OF
Labor upon the Railrosd Masrate.
(From the Philadelphia Tmes.)
The General Executive Board of i2e
Knights Of Labor yesterday sent cut
from the Broad street headquarters the
last secret circular Of the order prepared
by General Master Workman Powderly.
It is in reference to the establishment OF
= governmental system Of telegraphy and
directs every local assembly Of the great
organization to issue red-letter calls, ap
point COMMITTEES and wait upon every
Congressman IN the separate districts
and persuade him to vote for the meas
ura.
The secret circular IS one Of the most
plain ever issued by Mr.. Powderly, and
makes the most bitter attack upon Jay
Gould and monopoiists in general that
has ever been made by the order. It
first ao3 TIE members OF the order for
not zt.:cnding to their duties apd work
Ing = .>e interest of governmental tele-
gras' aod then tells OF the combined
iz-iIiorts OF tae managers of telegraph lines
to suppress ail good and spread ali dis
c,,,r2girg news relating to the Knights
"t Labor.
SCORING JAy GOULD.
III. Povderlv tells Of the power Of the
Western Union and how it stands with
out siv&i; how the Western Union has
efecsaa!ly and easily killed Off al COM
petito-s, and cites, as an instance, the
mers ing of the Baltimore and Ohio.
s:Jav Gould rules absolutely the desti-
MES of the American people," says IL.
Powderly, s'an6 he is the practical own
er OF that part OF the United States
which he wishes to take
In speaking OF the ''capita!istic press"
he says the order cannot ask the press of
this country to be independent as long
as it allows monopoly to cortcol both
press and people. The circular says:
THE news comes to them ready made
on wires over which the people, the
editors OF labor papers and the capital
issic press have no control. We ask of
editors Of papers to speak out against
monopoly. Ii they comply with our
request they are boFcottei, first by the
man (?) who own the wires, whan the
telegraphic news is shut of from their
columns; second, by the very people
WHO have asked OF them to wage war on
monopoly and because they do not pub
hsh the news
The circular tells how the government
has reduced postal charges to mini.
mum, and how when mistakes are made
IN transmission or delivery the govern
ment is always anxious to rectify such
error. As a comparison It says COM
plant against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company is entirely useless; that
Is, unless the complainant has ten or
twenty millions of dollars to back him
up.
GIT IS THE TO WORK. :"
The circular says that Jay Gould has
so e just as far as he ought to go il his
career Of rapacity. The system he rep
resents can be displaced if the people
awake from their slumbers. The &C.
counts Of the next Presidential election
may be flashed over wires owned aud con-
troIled by the people, if they will act at
cnca. In reference to asking each and
every Senator Or Congressman to vote
Tor governmental telegraphy Mr.. Pow
derly closes the circular with:
''When you have secured all tha names
you can get send the petitions to the
General Secretary, but do not mail them
until the ID day OF January, 1888. On
That day from every town and hamlet in
the United States where We have an
assembly I want to have petition. I
shall have the names counted and shall
take them to Washington to have them
presented to Congress. Fill them out
carefully. Have every man Or woman
sign his or own name. Get the best
writer in the assembly to All out the
heading 10 each petition, giving the
name OF State, number Of Congressional
district and the name Of your Congress
man. Be sure to have these matters
carefully attended to. I sn in earnest,
and l want to take with me petition so
large thar ii will demonstrate beyond the
shadow of doubt that you are il earn
est. Isl= time to work, and you must
do +2e work. Throw sside your per-
sonai ceilings, your animosities, your
differences an3 jealousies for the time
and wock Tor this measure as you never
worked before. The paper sent you will
not contain names enough; add more
,+ntil you secure every signature in your
locality .